Detectives seek public's help in probe of Great Brook Valley fatal shooting

Tuesday

Jul 23, 2013 at 6:46 PMJul 23, 2013 at 10:17 PM

By Scott J. Croteau , TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF

WORCESTER — Police are still asking witnesses to the fatal shooting on Constitution Avenue Sunday night to come forward.

Detectives continue to investigate the slaying of 28-year-old Igor I. Busanet. Police said they believe there were several witnesses to the killing who have not stepped forward.

According to witnesses, Mr. Busanet was gunned down in front of his children in the courtyard area of 205 Constitution Ave. around 9 p.m. Sunday.

He was driven to a city hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Police said Tuesday afternoon that no arrests have been made in the killing, the fifth this year in the city.

Mr. Busanet's friends and family mourned him at a gathering Monday in the Great Brook Valley housing complex. Pictures and candles were placed on a sidewalk. Messages in memory of the slain man were nearby.

Sometime before the shooting there was a fight at the Roberto Clemente Field, near the housing complex. Investigators are trying to determine if the fight was related to the shooting. Residents of the complex believe the fight and shooting are related.

The fatal shooting comes at time when the city has seen an increase in shootings for the first half of the year, compared with the same period last year. There were 13 non-fatal shootings in Worcester from Jan. 1 to June 30, compared with seven non-fatal shootings in the same period last year.

Of the five killings this year, four have been by firearm. Three of those killings involved domestic murder-suicides.

Anyone with information may send an anonymous text to 274637 beginning with TIPWPD, or submit an anonymous message online at www.worcesterma.gov/police, or call detectives at (508) 799-8651.